Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
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Gill's Exposition
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,.... This is an apostrophe, or an address to his Father, who he believed would not leave his soul, as separate from his body, in Hades, in the invisible…
Barnes' Notes
Thou wilt not leave my soul - The word “soul,” with us, means “the thinking, the immortal part of man,” and is applied to it whether existing in connection with the body or separate from it. The…
Adam Clarke
Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell - Εις Ἁιδου, in hades, that is, the state of separate spirits, or the state of the dead. Hades was a general term among the Greek writers, by which they expressed…
We have here the first-fruits of the Spirit in the sermon which Peter preached immediately, directed, not to those of other nations in a strange language (we are not told what answer he gave to those…
Cambridge Bible
in hell The Greek word here and in Act 2:2 is Hades, and signifies the unseen world.
neither wilt thou suffer Lit. give.
thine Holy One The Hebrew word in the Psalm contains the idea of beloved, as…
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